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As The Boring Company put it, > As a point of reference, less than 20 miles of underground subway tunnel has been constructed in the United States in the last
by Veedrac 3y ago
As The Boring Company put it,
> As a point of reference, less than 20 miles of underground subway tunnel has been constructed in the United States in the last 20 years.
The most important point of their design should not be thought of as it being express transport, though it is, nor anything special about their throughput, though it's competitive — it's just that underground transit is good, the regulatory environment is bad, and Teslas-in-tunnels is about the least encumbered way of making it happen.
- jakelazaroff 3y agoIs that actually true, though? I’m pretty sure we’ve built more than 20 miles of tunnel over that time period in LA alone.
- Veedrac 3y agoI have no better data for the broad claim than the claim itself, but IIUC LA only has B and D lines for subway, and those are <23 miles total. Given they opened over 20 years ago I find it hard to see where LA would have built >20 miles of subway. I skimmed the pages for the lines and don't think they've expanded at all in that time, in terms of underground miles. I assume TBC's figure doesn't include work still under construction. Happy to be corrected, my numbers are best-effort.
- manuelabeledo 3y agoThe irony of that statement is that car manufacturers have been lobbying against public transport for decades.